Olivia Parker

Olivia Parker (born 1941) is a Manchester-by-the-Sea-based American still-life photographer.

Olivia Parker
Born1941
Boston
Alma materWellesley College
Known forStill-life photography
Websitehttps://www.oliviaparker.com/

Early life and education

Parker was born in Boston in 1941.[1] She graduated from Wellesley College with a bachelor's degree in art history[1] in 1963.[2]

Career

Parker is interested in the parallels between art and science. Before focusing her practice on still-life photography she was trained as an art historian and also produced paintings in the tradition of 17th-century Dutch and Spanish still life works.[3]

Parker's photographs of found objects have been described as "poetic and "dreamy. A retrospective exhibition of Parker's work, titled Order of Imagination: The Photographs of Olivia Parker, was held at the Peabody Essex Museum in 2019.[3][4] An exhibition catalog accompanied the exhibition.[5]

Parker was inducted in the International Photography Hall of Fame in 2019, along with Ralph Gibson, Elliott Erwitt, Mary Ellen Mark and others.[6]

Collections

Parker's work is included in the collections of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,[7] Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,[8] Museum of Modern Art, New York,[9] and the Peabody Essex Museum.[10]

Family life

Parker and her investor husband John moved into a house in Manchester-by-the-Sea in 1967.[1][3] He died in 2016 after living with Alzheimer’s for years.[1] Her series Vanishing in Plain Sight was about his illness.[1] [3]

References
  1. "Olivia Parker's best photograph: an early warning of Alzheimer's". The Guardian. 2017-06-07. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
  2. "Resume". oliviaparker.com. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
  3. Cardin, Dinah (4 November 2019). "Sea Glass and Snails: A Found Object Photographer in Manchester". Northshore Magazine. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  4. Block, Annie (12 August 2019). "Olivia Parker's Photography Retrospective Showcases her Mastery of Light". Interior Design. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  5. Spring, Elin (September–October 2019). "VANISHING POINT: Olivia Parker's photographs potently capture the edge of mortality". Architects Magazine. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  6. "International Photography Hall of Fame 2019 Induction and Awards Ceremony". Ladue News. 12 April 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  7. "Olivia Parker: Broken Nautiluses". mfah.org.
  8. "About". oliviaparker.com. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
  9. "Olivia Parker | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
  10. "Cinquefoil, from the Ephemera Portfolio, 1975". collection.pem.org.
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